Literary fiction · A Novel of a Maine Fishing Family
The Ways We Keep Water.
The Ways We Keep Water, by the numbers
- years of Tuesdays
- 42
- bag of herring, every week
- ½
- partner lost over the stern
- 1
- seconds he never told anyone about
- 4
Every Tuesday for forty-two years, Del Hawes has weighed out half a bag of herring for Ruth Cutler, whose husband went over the stern of Del’s boat, and the whole harbor calls it kindness.
For forty-two years a Maine lobsterman has sold bait every Tuesday to the widow of the partner he lost overboard, and the summer his hands start to shake, his daughter finds the dead man’s logbook and the four seconds he never told anyone about.
Olive Kitteridge meets The Perfect Storm.
Every Tuesday, the same ten dollars. Never a word about why.
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Setting
- A lobstering harbor on the coast of Maine
- Format
- Kindle ebook
- ASIN
- B0HDXMYZTV
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